Half an hour left: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Join Carys Shannon on her debut book tour with events and signings held throughout the month. "Suspenseful and suffused in the uncanny power of the ever-shifting tides of a Welsh estuary, Carys Shannon’s Truth Like Water is a first-rate mystery novel” – Joanne Owen, @lovereadinguk.bsky.social

OH NO THAT’S A LOT OF EVIL.

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish....Finch deploys the right amount of irreverence and respect to tell his stories." Thanks to Desmond Clifford, @nation.cymru for this lovely review of The Literary Business. Read in full below nation.cymru/culture/the-...

"By teaching us how to read, they taught us how to get away." 💙📚 #Bookvember

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Alright, who wants to buy some lovely books…

An independent horror comics publisher from Wales is bringing the dark legends of Cymru to life with a new anthology of bone-chilling stories.

I could get behind this 📚💙

Enjoyed talking to Cynan Jones and Anthony Shapland at @belfastfestival.bsky.social last night. Jones talked about the moment when he took a 90,000-word historical novel, and cut 60,000 words in one go. Was that hard? "No, it felt great." The result was his 2014 novel The Dig.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 5: A book doesn’t need a “serious message” to be worthwhile. Joy is a legitimate end in itself.

A solo exhibition featuring new paintings by celebrated painter John Abel titled Un Nos Ola Leuad is set to take place in Cardiff this November

*VACANCY* University of Wales Press seeks a Finance and Business Manager! For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/vacancies/ Closing date: 10 November

📚Taith Llyfr 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' Bydd Aled Eirug yn parhau ar daith dros yr wythnosau nesaf, gyda digwyddiadau ar hyd y wlad! Y nesaf ydy sgwrs gydag Adrian Masters yn @storyvillebooks.bsky.social, Pontypridd am 18.30 nos Iau yma. Dewch yn llu! 👇 www.facebook.com/events/25309...

📚'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' Book Tour 📚 Author Aled Eirug is on tour at events across Wales this autumn! Join Aled in conversation with Adrian Masters at @storyvillebooks.bsky.social at 18:30, Thursday 30 October. Follow the link for more information👇 www.facebook.com/events/25309...

A new book by an Aberystwyth academic is reintroducing one of Wales’ most celebrated literary figures to a new generation of readers

A tender-hearted little book, kind, elegiac, forgiving of human foible and sensitive to the huge sadnesses that are ingredients of every life ✍️ Niall Griffiths

As I walked the paths I walked as a child almost seventy years before, memories crept into me, up through the soles of my feet. Such was the deep connection which had a profound effect on my fiction ✍️ Jane Fraser

It is time 👁️👁️

Stretchgoal!!

The Man on the Train: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology is available in store now! Can also be found online via: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

George Orwell's classic novella, Animal Farm, is available from us now with a new cover design. Available in store or online via: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/anim...

Coming next month: The 50th anniversary edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters! This design nods back to the original hardcover jacket, which was by Patricia Voehl. The new cover is designed by Jamie Lynn Kerner. Harper Perennial publishes this edition on November 18th.

Beautiful sets of Christmas cards available in store!

Great board games available! Including Phantom Ink, the word game of unfinished business.

Check out our list of Manga Thrillers! Perfect for Halloween. uk.bookshop.org/lists/thrill...

Pokemon Trainers! Tomorrow is your time! www.facebook.com/events/16075...

Kaden's Weekly Recommendations! Week Eighty One: We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer Available online via: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/we-u... Once they're in, they never leave.

Where are my #Dragonlance fans? Margaret Weis posted this on her Facebook page today after posting pictures of herself, Joe Manganiello, Tracy and Laura Hickman, and the new head of #DnD (at #WizardsOfTheCoast). What do you think is coming? Are you excited? Who would you cast in a show/ movie?

My original 1983 Fighting Fantasy books don't often leave the house these days, but if you come to the Haunted Generation night at Glossop Labour Club this coming Saturday, you can play my 1984 DIY Fighting Fantasy book 'The Moonstone Dungeon...'

Learnt how to do kettle stitch in class the other day #art #illustration #bookbinding #kettlestitch #sketchbooks

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

🕯️𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙣 59 years have passed, but we will never forget those who lost their lives in the devastating events at Aberfan in 1966. At 9:13am we will fall silent to pay our respects, we will never forget them. 🖤🤍

And we are past £5k. 🎉 Not far to go now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Join us at @storyvillebooks.bsky.social this Thursday for the New Welsh Review and Parthian Books Autumn Party! With readings from issue contributors and special guest and Ponty local Crystal Jeans will also be reading from her brand-new essay collection Blueprints. Kicking off at 7.15pm🍂

The Red Dragon of the Welsh tells the story of the Welsh flag, the significance of the Red Dragon in history and mythology, and the cultural significance of the symbol. Available in store or online via: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/comp...

Explore the beauty in the darkness with our list of Gothic manga titles. For those who like their horror with a stronger emotional edge! uk.bookshop.org/lists/gothic...

Remember we also have art supplies in store. Beautiful sets like this one and much more!

Join us next Thursday to celebrate the latest issue of the New Welsh Review! www.facebook.com/events/13479...

Looking for a little extra to add to your DnD campaigns? Dragon and Beholder minis available in store!

Check out our list of twist filled horror and thriller reads for teenage readers! uk.bookshop.org/lists/creepy...

Kaden's Weekly Recommendations! Week Eighty: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. Available online via: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/camp... An incredibly gripping horror novel that explores a very real nightmare. But behind the horror is something beautiful. Hope is not lost. Love is real.

We are delighted to reveal that @onewomanwalks is the winner of the inaugural #TheIlseSchwepckePrize for her book, ONE WOMAN WALKS EUROPE. A huge congratulations to Ursula, and to all shortlisted authors @theilseschwepckeprize #literaryprize #womentravellers #travelwriting #bookstagram

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12: When you're getting ready to edit your first draft, change the font. It will trick your brain into reading anew, so you won't just skip over the familiar text...

Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Record all saw double-digit declines in both weekday and Saturday newspaper circulations in Sept 2025. Daily Express saw the biggest year-on-year decline - down 19% to 99,861 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Despite relentlessly discovering social media makes NO difference to ticket sales , let me remind you that I am in ST ALBANS this week www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk/events/58bpt...

Over £3,000! Yes! Who wants to hear of Welsh myths coming back to life to save us. We may even wake up Arthur is the need is desperate enough. If you haven't please back it as there is still 40% to go.